That's the question...
Posted on 06/13/2019 9:04:43 AM PDT by God luvs America
DUBAI—Two tankers were damaged in attacks off the coast of Iran early Thursday, including one operated by a Japanese company, on a day when Tehran rebuffed attempts by Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to ease a military standoff with the U.S.
The incidents sent oil prices sharply higher, reigniting fears of trade disruptions in the Strait of Hormuz, through which over a third of the world’s seaborne crude oil is shipped. Brent crude, the international benchmark for crude prices, rose 4% on Thursday to $62.37.
The attacks appeared to use relatively sophisticated weapons, according to early assessments, and came within roughly 45 minutes of each other in the Gulf of Oman, where four tankers were attacked last month in an incident the U.S. blamed on Iran, which Tehran denied. The U.S. military has built up its military presence in the Persian Gulf in response to what American officials said were threats from Iran, sending an aircraft carrier, the USS Abraham Lincoln, and its strike group to the region.
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Small taters, Revel.
Who benefits from War?
Who controls NK?
Who REALLY controls NK?
Who controls Iran?
This is just a bunch of Clowns running a Pickle Factory.
That's the question...
Jay Sekulow reporting Iran very likely the culprit”
Gulf of Tonkin
Putin’s Russia is the winner.
Tonkin Gulf. Remember? That started the war that Bolton declined to fight in
Remember the Maine!
Remember Gulf of Tonkin!
Remember Saddam’s wmds!
The North Vietnamese, just like when they fired on us in the Tonkin Gulf
Torpedoes usually mean ‘state actor‘
Saudis want us at war with their enemy Iran.
Who gains from this (those that want war against Iran) and who loses (those that are trying to keep the peace)?
Follow the money!
Keep in mind we are 22 Trillion dollars in debt, and the country is sick of war. We have been in a perpetual state of war since World War II.
Can you say Gulf of Tonkin?
Remember the Maine!
Germans Butchering Belgian Children!
He has that in common with Donald Trump and Bill Clinton.
“Who gains from this (those that want war against Iran)”
Come now, our friends the Saudis would never do such a thing. They don’t want oil prices to rise, they told us so. And never mind about all that beheading they do. It’s a cultural thing, and cultural diversity is wonderful
He has that in common with Donald Trump“
There’s this difference: Trump doesn’t have a history of wanting to send other people’s kids to reckless foreign wars. Bolton does. He’s fine with shedding people’s blood in nation-building invasions, just not his own blood
actually time time to invad Iran was in 1991 when the coalition kicked Hussien out of Kuwait. should have take a right turn and went after the Ayatollah Khomeni
Now they have had 30 year to harden their defenses
I’ll call you with Diane Feinstein. Let the red line run through her office.
Yes.....puny torpedo if tankers still afloat....probably houthis using small charges directed by Iranians....
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